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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down? — James A. McDougall

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. — Sandra Cisneros

A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy. — Debasish Mridha

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring. — Jules Renard

Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet. — Jocelyn Gibb

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. — Lewis Cass

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another. — Gerald Brenan

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. — Ogden Nash

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. — Giacomo Casanova

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great. — Nick Flynn

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. — Umberto Eco

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac

As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness. — William Strunk Jr.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. — John Drinkwater

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. — Claude Monet

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on. — William C. Bryant

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore De Balzac

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. — Dick Gregory

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. — Robert Green Ingersoll

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. — Octavio Paz

poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist. — Walter Isaacson

It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1 — Yuval Noah Harari

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch

Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes. — Roberto Calasso

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet ... yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. — William Temple

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them. — Anthony Minghella

A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician. — Orna Ross

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. — George Bernard Shaw

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. — Kenneth Branagh

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay

But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell
hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me your personal hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ... — Leni Riefenstahl

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind. — Oscar Wilde

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? — Vera Nazarian